I've been noticeably absent from all my boards lately and now find that I have a little more time to browse...and found this very timely conversation ;-) Cady and Mel will remember that I've been renovating/restoring my parent's '56 contemporary that had been neglected for almost 25 years (mom had alzehiemer's, dad took care of her, she died he wouldn't let us touch anything, brother is terminal and could care less about fixing or cleaning) Well, the end is in sight ...the house is to be officially listed this Tuesday. I made a marked effort to bring back the landscape to what my mother had planted in the late 50's early 60's ...not strictly due to nostalgia but because my mother had an excellent eye for design and color that spurred my interest in gardening at a very young age. I found the comment on Frank Llloyd, "* Wright originated the visionary concept of a rear living-room opening into a garden terrace -- fifty years before the California architects generally credited with the concept" described my parent's house to a 'T' and we tried to make the most of it - it may not be a Wright but it is certainly '50's California. I thought I'd share a few pictures...I will take all the final photos this weekend when we do all the little nit picky stuff. This is a view of the refloored rear living room and gives you a shot of the windows overlooking the back patio i.e garden terrace pre landscaping - http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?&collid=342900975105&photoid=501321897105 This is that same back patio Before - http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?&collid=567043265105&photoid=287043265105 And after After - http://www.ofoto.com/PhotoView.jsp?&collid=342900975105&photoid=921321897105 We did remove the junipers out front (person loathing involved in that decision) and repeated the fern/fuscia theme my mother had had out back. I'll take photos this weekend. Barbara in Hollywood

cyn, good point about the window treatments. oly and others, thanks so much for the idea of a wall of built ins along the north wall. Annie's visual sure does help. rnmom, this is my daughter's bedroom, and even though she's in college now and will have her own place soon, she definitely needs the closet space. She would have preferred a walk-in, but my husband and I are attempting to downsize. That concept seems to work better for us in theory than in reality!

nice, very boho. i do not usually do paint.

The two windows at the entryway look to me like mid-century classic window placement (the ones that form a corner by the door). I love those kind of windows, and you could emphasize them, but on those homes, they seem to be less heavily framed and more like picture windows than the ones you have here. I think the windows would look nice as simple panes, and could really be a feature. But that would mean they should have no mullions, but likely those are already embedded in the window pane you have there. You could look up midcentury corner windows to see what i mean, sorry I do not have any good pictures to link here. I also think the front could look very cool, but you could look at some original 1950s bungalow designs to see how they would have landscaped the front siding part for some ideas. Here's an older houzz post with almost the same dilemma and window placement. They have the same brick at the bottom that you do, more visible in the second photo. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5867903/ugly-50s-house-corner-windows-create-a-problem-add-color